Word Meanings - VENGEANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

vindicare to lay claim to, defend, avenge, fr. vindex a claimant, defender, avenger, the first part of which is of uncertain origin, and the last part akin to dicere to say. See Diction, and cf. Avenge, 1. Punishment inflicted in return for an

Additional info about word: VENGEANCE

vindicare to lay claim to, defend, avenge, fr. vindex a claimant, defender, avenger, the first part of which is of uncertain origin, and the last part akin to dicere to say. See Diction, and cf. Avenge, 1. Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an offense; retribution; -- often, in a bad sense, passionate or unrestrained revenge. To me belongeth vengeance and recompense. Deut. xxxii. 35. To execute fierce vengeance on his foes. Milton. 2. Harm; mischief. Shak. What a vengeance, or What the vengeance, what! -- emphatically. "But what a vengeance makes thee fly!" Hudibras. "What the vengeance! Could he not speak 'em fair" Shak. -- With a vengeance, with great violence; as, to strike with a vengeance.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VENGEANCE)

• Revenge
• Retaliation
• vengeance
• retribution
• requital

Related words: (words related to VENGEANCE)

• REVENGEFUL
  Full of, or prone to, revenge; vindictive; malicious; revenging; wreaking revenge. If thy revengeful heart can not forgive. Shak. May my hands . . . Never brandish more rebvengeful steel. Shak. Syn. -- Vindictive; vengeful; resentful; malicious.
• REVENGEMENT
  Revenge. He 'll breed revengement and a scourge for me. Shak.
• RETRIBUTION
  1. The act of retributing; repayment. In good offices and due retributions, we may not be pinching and niggardly. Bp. Hall. 2. That which is given in repayment or compensation; return suitable to the merits or deserts of, as an action; commonly,
• REVENGEABLE
  Capable of being revenged; as, revengeable wrong. Warner.
• REVENGEANCE
  Vengeance; revenge.
• REVENGER
  One who revenges. Shak.
• REQUITAL
  The act of requiting; also, that which requites; return, good or bad, for anything done; in a good sense, compensation; recompense; as, the requital of services; in a bad sense, retaliation, or punishment; as, the requital of evil deeds. No merit
• RETALIATION
  The act of retaliating, or of returning like for like; retribution; now, specifically, the return of evil for evil; e.g., an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. God . . . takes what is done to others as done to himself, and by promise
• VENGEANCELY
  Extremely; excessively. "He loves that vengeancely." Beau. & Fl.
• REVENGELESS
  Unrevenged. Marston.
• REVENGE
  to avenge, revenge, F. venger, L. vindicare. See Vindicate, 1. To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult, etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; -- followed either by the wrong received, or by the person
• VENGEANCE
  vindicare to lay claim to, defend, avenge, fr. vindex a claimant, defender, avenger, the first part of which is of uncertain origin, and the last part akin to dicere to say. See Diction, and cf. Avenge, 1. Punishment inflicted in return for an
• AVENGEANCE
  Vengeance.